Today, AMD has significantly expanded its line of mobile processors, introducing two new series that complement the flagship Ryzen AI Max 300 series. We are talking about new models of the Ryzen AI 300 series on Strix Point crystals with Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores, as well as a series of Ryzen 200 chips , based on older Hawk Point silicon with Zen 4 cores.
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In 2024, AMD introduced only two processors of the Strix Point family – the older Ryzen AI 9 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365, which are equipped with 12 cores (four Zen 5 and eight Zen 5c), 24 threads, as well as integrated graphics with 16 execution units (CU ). Today, the family is complemented by the Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen AI 5 340 processors, as well as their variants from the Ryzen PRO family for commercial laptops.
The Ryzen AI 7 350 has eight cores (four each Zen 5 and Zen 5c), which operate in 16 threads. The base frequency of all cores is 2.0 GHz, and the older Zen 5 cores are overclocked to 5.0 GHz. The integrated graphics processor is Radeon 860M with 12 CUs and a clock speed of up to 3000 MHz.
In turn, the Ryzen AI 5 340 has six cores (three each Zen 5 and Zen 5c) running in 12 threads. The base clock speed of the processor is 2.0 GHz, and the maximum frequency for Zen 5 cores reaches 4.8 GHz. The integrated graphics are significantly reduced: only 4 CUs with a clock frequency of 2.90 GHz.
Both processors offer configurable power consumption ranging from 15 to 55 W, which laptop manufacturers can tailor to specific systems. All four mentioned new products are equipped with Ryzen AI neural processors based on XDNA 2 architecture with performance up to 50 TOPS, which allows them to meet the requirements of Microsoft Copilot+PC.
AMD also presented 11 models of Ryzen 200 series processors. All of these chips are based on Hawk Point silicon and are actually renamed processors of the Ryzen 8000 family:
- Ryzen 9 270 — Ryzen 9 8945HS;
- Ryzen 7 260 — Ryzen 7 8845HS;
- Ryzen 7 250 — Ryzen 7 8840HS/U;
- Ryzen 5 240 — Ryzen 5 8645HS;
- Ryzen 5 230 — Ryzen 5 8640HS/U;
- Ryzen 5 220 — Ryzen 5 8540U;
- Ryzen 3 210 — Ryzen 3 8440U.
These chips offer up to eight Zen 4 cores and integrated Radeon 700M series graphics based on the older RDNA 3 architecture, which includes up to 12 CUs. Some models are equipped with a built-in NPU, but this is an older Ryzen AI XDNA NPU with 16 TOPS performance. This is enough to speed up simple AI tasks, but not enough to meet Copilot+PC specifications.
Laptops based on the new AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors will appear in the first quarter of this year, and on Ryzen AI PRO 300 and Ryzen 200 chips – in the second quarter of the year.